this 🧵 sums up how I feel about it, too

I have an immediate distaste for any man who uses anything resembling therapy speech to try to force others to accept or tolerate their toxic ass behaviors

I was talking to my partner the other day about a bad game review - not bad bc they didn't like it, but bc they didn't engage with it. Lamenting critics who will pan something without even watching/playing etc, or who will give something a bad review bc it's not to their personal taste—

guard + anything with that arrangement of letters in it I don't know why my brain just will not hold onto the correct order for the u and a and it looks incorrect to me no matter which I decide to go with

Be Excellent To Each Other

I must not fear. Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

You can't hold someone to a promise they never make.

Bringing this back for the current round

Children are vulnerable human beings who need care, protection, and guidance but they are not property and a legal and social system that treats them like they are encourages abuse and mistreatment.

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it tickles me that the three broad uses of the English word "scale" apparently come from separate origins to climb - Latin scala for ladder measuring device - Norse skal for drinking vessel plating like on a fish or reptile - French escale for shell or husk

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

well, if that isn't an ongoing refrain

Anti-Trans bigotry is such a strong force because Trans people represent a movement towards bodily autonomy that would violate everything the fascists hold dear. The fascists don't want anyone to get to make choices about their bodies. Trans healthcare is a slap in the face to patriarchal control.

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

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I would rather open a vein with a rusty fountain pen and write in my own viscera than ever use llm bullshit

and applies so broadly to practically any worthwhile human endeavor - this is how we learn and grow as technicians, as scholars, as artists, and fundamentally *as people* the effort, the struggles, the frustration and mistakes... that's how learning and improvement WORKS, not flaws in the system

“All authors are using AI now” Not true! A lot of us use crippling childhood trauma.

really great how the end result of today's events, on TDoV, is a bunch of people publicly calling gay and trans people mentally ill and sending harassment directly to their accounts for telling a guy his poorly written post was poorly written

I love RttS so much, I can't wait to hold it in my hands!

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Like even if gAI wasn't destroying the planet (it is), even if it wasn't built on theft (it is), even if it wasn't making people less intelligent and inducing breaks from reality (it is), it was still built by fascists wanting to create technofeudalism and destroy the power of workers worldwide.

Reparations now. UBI. No means testing. Just checks. Emergency welfare available to all on request as cash payments & OPTIONAL counselling. Nationalize the internet. Categorize internet access as a basic utility, like water. Free college. Forgive all student debt. 100% tax rate above $10 mil.

You don't get to build B-2 Stealth bombers AND plead poverty.

Just needed to let you guys know that if you annoy electric eels enough, they'll jump out of the water to slap you. WHILE electrically discharging. So naturally they did a study The diagrams do seem to raise as many questions as they answer

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

I didn't immediately connect those dots in particular, but yeah, of course it's all part of the same fascist project

monopolies and big corporate conglomerates, like billionaires, should not fucking exist

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Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

just misread Carcassonne as Carcosa, and hear me out...

this is extremely fucking important, esp with what just happened in kansas. they are trying to criminalize every aspect of our existence. i try not to be alarmist about things but this is where we are and it is BAD bad

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it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI: I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

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those dreams were a fucking trip... sometimes I was treading water, sometimes standing on a giant turtle like an island before the serpent part and there were filthy, wild looking people lining its throat pulling me down, and something like fire light from far, far below I was like 6-8